Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

On May 16, 2018, at 3:43 AM, 'Gary Brown' via Vintage Macs wrote: > I don't like the 610/660/6100 case. Easier to get into than some, but the > footprint is way too big. Thanks to having a power button right next to the floppy drive, users trained on non-Macs

Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

A Centris 610 was the first color computer I got - back in about 1994, it replaced my SE/30 on the desktop. Over time I upgraded to 12MB of RAM and a 270MB hard drive, back when they were about a dollar per meg. It was a good machine, I used it regularly for more than three years. After that I

Re: What OS Should my Macintosh SE run?

On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:42:44 UTC+10, superstar64 wrote: > > It's not necessarily just an SE thing. I wouldn't recommend anything later > than early System 7 on any 68000 Macintosh... > Yes: I've run 7.0.1 on my Mac Portable (68000, but Mac SE clock speed x 2) for over 25 years. For the

Re: G3 Beige

Contact me off thread. I may have what you are looking for. M Black On May 15, 2018, at 6:42 PM, superstar64 > wrote: A good idea would be to do what I did for the Centris 660av and just look around eBay for a bit. Unfortunately most of the

Re: What OS Should my Macintosh SE run?

On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 3:42:44 AM UTC-7, superstar64 wrote: > > It's not necessarily just an SE thing. I wouldn't recommend anything later > than early System 7 on any 68000 Macintosh... > > ...And yes, that does include the classic. > I am running System 7.0.1 on my SE. I don't find it

Re: What OS Should my Macintosh SE run?

It's not necessarily just an SE thing. I wouldn't recommend anything later than early System 7 on any 68000 Macintosh... ...And yes, that does include the classic. -- -- - You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at

Re: USB 2.0 drivers for classic Mac OS. How hard could it be?

"There was a period of time between the introduction of USB 2.0 and when OS X began to not suck". Notice how you said "not suck" and not "when OS X was made". By the time OS X was released in 2001, developers were shifting their focus from OS 9 to OS X (which as we've seen today, that's worked

Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

I know they speed bumped the 610 and the 650 but the Centris 660av and Quadra 660av have no difference besides the model sticker. also they take the same System 7.1 that came with the Quadra 840av. -- -- - You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The

USB 2.0 drivers for classic Mac OS. How hard could it be?

Mac OS 8.1 and later support USB 1.0 / 1.1 but no company or independent software developers could be bothered to consider writing USB 2.0 drivers for those OS versions - not even the guy who wrote USB Overdrive to support many peripherals that neither Apple nor the device manufacturers would

Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

Most of them got a speed bump when they dropped the Centris name. Some of them were badly crippled in their hardware design for no good reason, except perhaps to prod more tech savvy customers to buy more expensive models. On Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 6:42:17 PM MDT, superstar64

Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

I don't like the 610/660/6100 case. Easier to get into than some, but the footprint is way too big. Nevertheless, I still rate the 68040 machines higher than the PPC601s. I recall my annoyance when work gave me a PM6100. I switched to a Quadra when one became available...

Re: Let's talk about one of Apple's shortest lived product lines...

… speaking of the IIvx - i remember my first mac, the inglorious IIvi. my father had the best intentions in 1992, but unfortunately chose exactly one of the models that fit perfectly into this category. after the huge investment there was no money left, to populate one of the nubus slots with